OVER THE WALL is a national children's charity founded in 1999. Our purpose is to create fun opportunities for children and their families to reach beyond serious illness and discover joy, confidence and a new world of possibilities, always free of charge.

We do this by providing residential activity camps, which last 3-6 days and are intentionally designed to create positive, life changing experiences.

Through camp children build confidence, self-esteem and resilience. They also find fun, friendship and laughter where they learn that their medical condition does not define them.

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Hosted by Sally Goddard Blythe, this major conference has outstanding speakers in the fields of neurology, education and policy and will be an important international forum for the exchange of knowledge between different professional disciplines.

The Conference celebrates 40 years since the foundation of The Institute for Neuro-Physiological Psychology (INPP) in 2015. INPP was established in 1975 as a private research and clinical organisation to research in to the role of Central Nervous System Dysfunction in Specific Learning Difficulties and Anxiety Disorders, and to develop effective methods of screening, assessment and remediation. Methods developed at INPP are now used in over 16 countries throughout the world and have successfully treated thousands of adults and children.

Keynote:

By Charles Njiokiktjien MD. Ph.D. & Wally van Grunsven BA (Ed). The keynote lecture will first present a general framework of the mind grounded in the Brain-Body Entity (B-B E). The B-B E comprises the basic emotional systems (very old in evolutionary terms), which provide the neural basis for normal development, attachment and further social interaction.

Second theme:  the development of the instrumental systems of language and praxis development, especially motor disorders and remnants of infantile sicknesses.

Third theme: the neural underpinnings of why children must learn to write and why one should avoid children's premature use of keyboards will be explained. In this context, Mesker's concept of truncal-motor function and the prevention of dysgraphy/handwriting disorders, connected to lateralisation disorders in preschool and early school children will be discussed.

"Disorders of instrumental and basic emotion systems of the mind are related with learning difficulties"

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Website:  www.inpp.org.uk

Down's Heart Group annual conference is Saturday 16th May 2015 at Combe House Hotel, Holford, Somerset, TA5 1RZ.

CONFERENCE - Morning Speakers:

Dr Ben Thomas - professional advisor on LD to Dept of Health
'Continuing projects and health opportunities for our youngsters.'

Suzanne Hodgkiss – education specialist from the Fortune Centre of Riding Therapy
'Unlocking learning potential through more practical and visual means.'

Gwen Moulster – Clinical Director, South Staffs NHS Trust. Lead on The Health Equalities Framework (HEF)
'HEF and how it will impact/help our families.'

Prof Rob Tulloh - Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist, Honorary Professor of Congenital Cardiology
'The importance of continued and joined up health care, even after corrective surgery.'

Family Fun Weekend

Delegates are welcome to join us for just the conference or the whole weekend. The weekend begins with a social supper on Friday evening, the conference during the day on Saturday, an evening dinner and disco and a family activity (TBC) for Sunday.

Conference costs £25 with additional prices for supper, disco, etc.

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